Dr. Breeding & Leonard Roy Frank on ECT

Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist and Author Leonard Roy Frank discuss electroshock therapy and 5th annual Roky Erickson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social.

Here's a very brief autobiography from Leonard:

"Born in Brooklyn in 1932. Univ. of Pennsylvania graduate. Real estate salesman. Moved in 1959 to San Francisco where I soon became interested in nonviolence, history, philosophy. What turned me around was Gandhi's autobiography which I read at that time.

"Committed to a psychiatric institution in 1962 and labeled 'paranoid schizophrenic.' Seven-plus months and 85 shock treatments later I was released -- with a 3-year memory gap.

"Joined the staff of Madness Network News staff in 1972 and co-founded the Network Against Psychiatric Assault in 1974, both in San Francisco. Engaged in a number of civil disobedience acts during the next 10 years in the U.S. and Canada. Edited and published _The History of Shock Treatment_ in 1978.

"Between 1998 and 2003 Random House published 8 books I edited, including the _Random House Webster's Quotationary_ (20,000 quotes in 1,000 alphabetized categories). In June of 2006 _The Electroshock Quotationary_, an illustrated, 154-page history of psychiatry's most controversial procedure in chronologically arranged quotations, was published on the Internet. It can be downloaded free of charge from
the website of the Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas."

Download the "The Electroshock Quotationary" a free book by Leonard Roy Frank.

http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF

Random House Books by Leonard Roy Frank

http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=9180

Visit Dr. Breedings website at;

http://endofshock.com

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[Seabrook78in]

Call me weird if you want but after all I've seen in life I have to ask if there is a consequence or several consequences for using ones rights to refuse medical treatment?

Like do medical insurance companies stop insuring those medical consumers who choose to refuse medical care that a doctor recommends or prescribes?

[psychetruth]

Insurance company don't like to pay. They wouldn't care if refused treatment. That might affect your life insurance but not your health insurance.

Insurance companies often charge people with mental health histories higher or premiums or out and out refuse to cover them though. Mental health treatment is long term symptom management without curing anything, so it's very expensive.

[vladimirovk]

haldol=haloperidol?

[psychetruth]

yes

[onlythousandsofme]

i love you, guys! i've been electroshocked too, but i survived. i know the brutality and horror of this so-called treatment.

[caketheorry]

I guess they must be telling the truth, LOOK AT THOSE BEARDS! How could they lie hahaha

[macdisciple]

He will delete your comment if it contradicts his opinion. The man is not tp be trusted.

[ACEMOM2010]

Please, will someone in this feild please read my channel and direct me as to how I can help my son. Please

[rosebudblacklace]

I love the way Dr. Breeding is so supportive of people who experience psychic openings, as he calls it. Mental patients liberation people are wonderful. They saved my life in San Francisco in the 1970s.

[blackowl6]

Verfy,cool,and universally correct......Challenge and question all authority,is one of my virtues.....I love your work and wish you and yours well.....

[soursuck]

Bugs lifes a good story about state control

[RiniPeeg]

I never understood how ECT should help depression, when an injured brain releases chemicals that cause it to be 'depressed.' Plus, causing additional injury to a brain can impact mood and behavior and physiology....Hrmmmm.